English Language Learners

Our ELL Best Practices collection includes a variety of resources that will help you ensure your school environment is welcoming to English language learners (ELLs) and their families. ELL Best Practices Guide This ELL Best Practices guide ...

Interactive read aloud places more responsibility on students to share what they are thinking in a way that simulates an authentic reading experience.   Since successful readers read, monitor their ...

Most teachers have a technique or two in their back-to-school tool kits for introducing themselves to families and taking those first steps to engage parents and other caregivers in the classroom and the ...

Subtle changes in test environments can improve standardized test scores among students of color and girls. For more than 10 years, New York University associate professor Joshua ...

High school teacher Kristan Taylor uses oral history projects and journaling to help ESL and non-ESL students "realize that they often share the same problems, frustrations and hopes for the future." ...

Too many educators believe the only way to journal is with the written word. Yes, we want our students to write — to increase their power through literacy. But why can't they use multiple intelligences to ...

Here are five things you can do to make your classroom respectful and culturally sensitive. As the participants in the roundtable point out, Asian American children are a diverse ...